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Increased research and observation crucial to efforts to continue to protect the ozone layer and climate
Press Release 10 October 2018

Top ozone experts from around the world highlighted the need for increased research and observations to inform policy

Be cool and save the ozone layer
Be cool and save the ozone layer
Video 4 September 2018

Keep Cool and Carry On - Ozone day 2018
Keep Cool and Carry On
Story 2 September 2018

Keep Cool and Carry On

Ozone day poster
Keep Cool and Carry On: Protecting our ozone layer and climate on World Ozone Day
News 17 July 2018

The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that saved the ozone layer, has been keeping our planet cool for year

Pollution
Parties take up urgent response to CFC-11 emissions
Story 16 July 2018
    Pyle Davy
    SAP Co-Chair John Pyle awarded for scientific leadership
    Story 14 July 2018

    Co-Chair of the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol, Prof.

    Kigali Amendment
    Kigali Amendment: Nine Parties to the Montreal Protocol Have Ratified
    Story 1 July 2018

    Montreal Protocol parties continue to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Protocol.

    UNGA High-Level Event on the Ratification of the Kigali Amendment
    UNGA High-Level Event on the Ratification of the Kigali Amendment
    Story 1 July 2018

    Ministers and top UN leaders urged the world’s nations to quickly ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protoco

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    UN Environment Statement on CFC Emissions
    Press Release 6 May 2018

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      Montreal protocol progress
      Kigali Amendment

      The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol entered into force on 1 January 2019 after the threshold for the agreement to enter into force was met on 17 November 2017, when it was ratified by 20 parties.

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      Working towards climate neutrality Working towards climate neutrality
      Greening the blue
      Working towards climate neutrality

      The Ozone Secretariat is part of the UN’s “Greening the Blue” efforts to move towards climate neutrality. The Secretariat works towards climate neutrality by measuring the carbon footprint of Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol meetings ...

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      World Ozone Day

      2020

      2020

      Ozone for life: 35 years of ozone layer protection

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      2019

      2019

      32 years and healing

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      2018

      2018

      Keep cool and carry on

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      2017

      2017

      30th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol: we are all ozone heroes

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      2016

      2016

      Ozone and climate: restored by a world united

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      2015

      2015

      Precious ozone: 30th anniversary of the Vienna Convention and international ozone day 2015

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      2006 - 2014

      2006 - 2014

      Earlier celebrations of international ozone day

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